Tag Archives: bash

Powerful _USERs in Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha4

"Super Heroes" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Olaf Gradin A lot of work has been done to greatly clarify and enhance various environment variables in the Apache Hadoop shell script code. One of those places was in the usage of various _USER environment variables. Prior to 3.0.0-alpha4 In previous releases, the supported variables were: Name Description HADOOP_SECURE_DN_USER User to… Read More »

Adding to Apache Hadoop’s Classpath

One of the big pain points of administrating Apache Hadoop is the ability to safely and efficiently add to the classpath. The original design in Hadoop gave users a single way to add jars: the HADOOP_CLASSPATH environment variable. This is a bit of a problem for end users, admins, and any 3rd party applications may… Read More »